<div dir="auto">You presume error free AIs that are capable of human-grade imagination and are in every way superior to humans. Reality is falling far short of that, and that might not just be in the short term.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Besides, humans find it quite easy to criticize even the most logically perfect human responses, and have for millenia. Consider how humans would respond if you had one of these hypothetical "perfect" AIs but people thought they were speaking to a person. Do you honestly believe they would not criticize it?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>It can already take hours of work to completely rebut a Gish gallop, and that is demonstrably well within human capability. Getting people to opt out of further discussion because it takes so much effort to rebut is rather the point, despite spewing so much incorrectness.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 7:09 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was wondering how AI could affect discussion groups.<br>
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AI could act as a powerful research assistant and provide information<br>
and possible problem solutions.<br>
Though at present we still have to check AI for'hallucinations' and errors.<br>
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The disadvantages that I see are that people might become too reliant<br>
on AI and assume that 'AI knows best' and reduce their own critical<br>
thinking skills. And people could become intimidated by the apparent<br>
knowledge and reasoning power of AI and reduce their own contribution<br>
to discussions.<br>
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In theory, AI could be a big help in discussions and problem-solving.<br>
But AI is becoming more powerful every month. People will find it more<br>
and more difficult to criticise an AI response. When faced with having<br>
to do hours of work to research and find reasons to oppose an AI<br>
comment, many busy people will just opt out of the discussion.<br>
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So will AI kill discussions? Will it make us *less* social?<br>
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BillK<br>
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